A Lecture On Classical National Education

Author : Cornelius C. Felton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333363826
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book A Lecture on the Classical Learning, Delivered Before the Convention of Teachers, and Other Friends of Education, Assembled to Form the American Institute of Instruction, August, 20, 1830 (Classic Reprint) written by Cornelius C. Felton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Lecture on the Classical Learning, Delivered Before the Convention of Teachers, and Other Friends of Education, Assembled to Form the American Institute of Instruction, August, 20, 1830 IN discussing the claims of classical learning, it is not my intention to revive the half-forgotten disputes in which the scholars of old arrayed themselves in contending parties, uh der the 'banners of ancient and of modern genius. The spirit which animated those violent times, is foreign from an occa sion like the present. The fanaticism which taught men to abuse and scorn each other for differences in literary opinion, and woman, in the person of a fair votary of the Muses, the ou ly one of her sex whom the French Academy has ever deign ed to eulogiz'e, 'to fix upon her opponent, Lamothe, because he ridiculed Homer's mythology, the gentle epithets 'cold, fiat, ridiculous, impertinent, grossly ignorant, prodd and senseless, ' and to remind him that Alcibiades boxed the ears of a rhetori' cian, because he had not Homer's works; this absurd fanati cism, it is far from my purpose to evoke. Yet it might well be matter of surprise, that the great masters of antiquity, whose works have stood the test of two thousand years, should, at this late day, be summoned before the tribunal of public opin ion, their merits closely scrutinized, questioned, doubted, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.